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In daily outpatient clinics, patients with pain in tissues around the shoulder joints often come to the hospital. Many people think that shoulder joint pain or discomfort is suffering from periarthritis , especially for people around 50 years old, because periarthritis of shoulder is also called "55 shoulder ". As the name suggests, it only occurs when it comes to the disease at around 50 years old. After massage and taking medicine, it is also not effective and has to come to the hospital. So is the pain in the tissues around the shoulder joint caused by periarthritis of the shoulder? This is not the case. In fact, after careful medical history, physical examination and imaging examination, it can be found that many people suffer from rotator cuff injury. Studies have found that rotator cuff injury is the most common disease among shoulder joint diseases, accounting for 70% to 80% of shoulder pain diseases, while periarthritis of shoulder is less than 20%. So, what exactly is rotator cuff injury and periarthritis of the shoulder? What is the difference between the two? Let’s learn about it today.
Rotary cuff injury usually refers to rotator cuff tendon injury and secondary subacromial bursitis , which are clinically manifested as shoulder pain, , weakness, and limited active movement of the shoulder joint. Many patients with shoulder pain are deeply troubled. At the mildest, they affect daily movements such as dressing and combing their hair. At the worst, they are unbearable and they cannot sleep at night.
shoulder periarthritis is also known as shoulder periarthritis , commonly known as shoulder coagulation , shoulder leakage, fifty shoulder, frozen shoulder. Usually it is caused by chronic injury to your shoulder capsule and its surrounding ligaments, tendons and bursa, which accumulates to a certain extent for a long time until it finally forms peri-shoulder inflammation. The main manifestations include swelling, pain, and limited movement in the shoulder joint area, especially at night. In addition, it will also involve pain in the neck, shoulders, and even armpit areas.
At first glance, there seems to be no difference between the two? In fact, the two are very different, mainly reflected in the following six aspects.
1. The causes of pain are different
Rotary cuff injury is the tendon that pulls the shoulder, because of the trauma, part or all of it is broken. Peripheral inflammation of the shoulder joint is caused by inflammation and the surrounding tissues.
2. The incidence of disease is different. The prevalence of periarthritis of shoulder is about 3%, which is more common in women. The proportion of patients with diabetes can be as high as 10%-20%; the prevalence of rotator cuff injury is as high as 50%.
3. Different pain manifestations
Patients with periarthritis of the shoulder generally suffer from pain at night, and maintaining proper exercise of the shoulder joint can relieve the pain; patients with rotator cuff injury generally have little difference in pain when the shoulder joint is active during the day and night, and the symptoms will not be relieved after the activity, and muscle strength is generally reduced.
4. joint movement is restricted Different
Patients with periarthritis of shoulder are more obvious in the arms, and there is no significant reduction in muscle strength within the range of movement; patients with simple rotator cuff injury generally have obvious limitations in the active movement, while those with passive movement are not significantly limited.
5. Different ages of illness
0 Periarthritis of the shoulder is high in middle-aged and elderly people between the ages of 50 and 60. People with high incidence of rotator cuff injury are retired people over 60 years old.
6. Treatment method
Periarthritis of the shoulder is generally mainly physical therapy; rotator cuff injury sometimes requires surgery.
Now you know the difference between the two. If you experience shoulder pain in the future, you must go to the hospital for treatment and first understand the disease before treating it, otherwise you will get half the result with twice the effort, and it will even be less worth the effort.
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